Research projects
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Experiential knowledge and complexity
Experiential knowledge plays an increasing role in mental healthcare, yet is often seen as unclear and vague. This project explores whether we can clarify experiential knowledge in terms of complexity.
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Focus area Ethics of the National Education Lab AI
The Ethics focus area of the National Education Lab AI conducts research on ethical aspects of the use of artificial intelligence in primary and secondary education in The Netherlands.
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Ethnicity and (in)equality in early Christianity
This project analyses the characterisation of people with different ethnic identities and the extent to which early Christian literature promotes ethnic (dis)equality.
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Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul
In this project, Matthijs den Dulk offers a series of case studies that analyze different ways in which ethnic stereotypes were used or exerted influence on Pauline writings.
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Contingency and meaning among transgender and gender diverse people
This interdisciplinary PhD project seeks to answer: How can the search for meaning experienced by transgender and gender diverse people be characterized, and how does it influence their well-being?
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In Search of Stories
In this research project we have explored the integration of experiences of contingency into the life narratives of advanced cancer patients.
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Meaning in life, identity formation and psychological wellbeing in high schools
This study sheds light on the possibilities for spiritual care in secondary schools, partly based on meaning-based aspects of well-being issues among these young people.
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The Convergence of Franciscan, Vatican, and African Thought on the Environmental Crisis: A Biopolitical Approach
This project aims to develop a philosophical post-capitalist theoretical and conceptual framework regarding humanity’s relationship with life and the environment, drawing on Franciscan, Vatican, and African Thought
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Digital Youth Formation Initiative
The Digital Youth Formation Initiative supports European Catholic projects that focus on the digital religious education of young people. Kaski facilitates the learning community in which projects share insights and guides their self-evaluations.
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What's so funny?
This research project explores representations and self-representations of Jewish and Muslim women in British TV comedies and stand-up comedy performances.
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Experiential Knowledge in Mental Health Care
This project investigates the nature and added value of experiental knowledge in the geestelijke gezondheidszorg (ggz).
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Amos: A Commentary
A commentary on the Book of Amos that offers a fresh translation of the Hebrew text, with sufficient notes to justify the translation and address underlying text-critical matters, and commentary in the form of focused exegetical essays.
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The influence of the network approach to mental problems on scientific and self-understanding
In this project, Nina de Boer researches the possibilities and limits of conceptions of psychological problems as multidimensional networks.
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Distrust in Expertise: A Philosophical Investigation
This project investigates our tendencies to (dis)trust specific sources of information.
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Can chatbots understand language?
In this project, we will investigate to what extent chatbots can truly understand language by looking at the extent to which they are able to go beyond mere literal word usage and understanding.
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Amor Mundi
This collaboration builds on a shared interests in contemporary ecological theory and philosophy and seeks to develop the sense of what “amor mundi” (love of the world) means in a time of social and ecological crises (i.e., poly-crisis).
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“Pursuit of holiness” in the Provincia Belgica Flandrica during the second half of the seventeenth century
In this project, the Carmelite pursuit of holiness in the second half of the 17th century is examined from four angles: as an administrative ambition, as a personal narrative, in the training of novices and within cultural sanctity-models.
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Between Biology and Ethics: The Concept of Drive in Schelling's Philosophy
The focus of this research is Schelling's philosophy of nature in general, and the concept of drive in particular, as it develops from his early philosophy of nature and freedom up to 1809.
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Phenomenology and Naturalism
This PhD project concerns the concept of ‘naturalism’ and its meaning in the philosophical projects of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.
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Planet and Plot: Imagining Humanity in the Anthropocene
Departing from a collection of novels dealing with climate change, this project investigates if and how literature can give a figure to being-human in the Anthropocene.